Do you move your body while gaming? (Excluding Kinect and Wii)

[Scarim Coral]

So I was checking the Rooster Teeth Youtube channel today and click on this video.

After finish watching it, it had reminded me during the time I dramatically move my body a lot when gaming. It was in Metroid Prime 2 Echo in the underwater section.
I was up against this black serpent like boss. I was having a tough time defeating it because the only way you can harm it is when it's charging right in front of you (weak spot is its mouth).
Anyway the way to fight it to fire a charge shot at the month and the side step either left or right in perfect timing. At this point I died several time so I was into it when it happen. When Samus side step left, I shift my body to the left (I was sitting on my bed).

So have you move your body in a dramatic way when you are playing your game? (Motion control like the Wii and Kinect does not count in this thread.) If you did what games you were playing on which consoles and do you know why you had moved your body?

 

[Blitzwarp]

I certainly do - I noticed the other day whilst I was playing War For Cybertron that I was leaning left and right as I strafed, and that when I approached the boss fight I leant right over my controller toward the telly. And whenever I played Mario on my DS I tended to tilt the console the way I was going. XD

 

[Vault101]

When playing some games, mainly shooters I hunch forward over my laptop

I also look very evil/angry when gaming Like Im posing to be a smiling serial killer (I see my reflection in the screen)

 

[Thaluikhain]

Yeah, when playing FPS games, there's alot of silly movements.

 

[Danceofmasks]

No, I'm pretty much a zombie ... my fingers move quickly, but apart from that, (apparently) even my eyeballs don't move much.

 

[Nethank]

Apparently I used to but never noticed it. The only time I noticed it was while playing L.A.I.R. but that was mostly because of the ridiculous six-axis flight control. The only other time I might move is when I have my laptop playing videos next to me for background noise.

 

[shadowmagus]

I do it practically constantly when playing racing games. Taking turns especially I always lean into them.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

I used to, though recently I noticed I've stopped.

 

[Timeenforceranubis]

If I'm playing a first-person game and something comes right at me that I really want to avoid, I'll actually move to the side or duck as I move out of the way ingame.

 

[Ldude893]

Every time I knock out the last thug standing in Batman Arkham Asylum.

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

I pretty much just sit cross-legged and don't move. I do however fidget to get comfortable or lie down after sitting like that for a few hours.
But, when I was younger, apparently whenever I swung the Sword in Halo, I'd lean forward according to my brother. *Shrug*

 

[Jordon Churchill]

i dont

 

[Dragonborne88]

I don't move quite to that extreme, but yeah, I tend to do lots of leaning. I can notice it myself when getting really into a shooter, if it has a "lean" mechanic, I will always lean myself as if it would help me peer around the corner. It's pretty amusing since I've noticed myself doing it, although, it tends to show up more in arcades and whatnot, not when I'm using a controller.

However, I've been told I make funny faces when I'm concentrating on playing something. I got really self-conscious about it after that and I think I managed to tone it down a bit since then.

 

[Cavan]

I shift my shoulders around, I know this because it is supposedly entertaining to watch the muscles in my back move around while i'm oblivious to you being there.

 

[smartengine]

I do have s tendency to smash my keyboard against the wall after playing some super meat boy.

 

[Nateofwar]

it all depends on how into a game i am at the time. if im just vegging out playing CoD or somthing then im just kinda gunna sit there, but if i start to get realy taken into somthing ill start trying to look around corners or somthing before realizing that i have to use the controller to actualy make it happen.

 

[C2Ultima]

Not besides adjusting my position for comfort.

 

[lettucethesallad]

I do this all the time with any game with a car in it. Can't win that race without leaning in the curves!

 

[Trivun]

I do a little bit, though it depends on the game. For example, whenever I play H.A.W.X. I end up tilting my body in the direction it would move if I was really in the plane. Same with other aerial warfare games, like Star Wars Starfighter. I don't tend to move as much though when playing, say, shooters like Halo, though again I do a little depending on the part of the game, and what the environment is like...

 

[thom_cat_]

Nope. Everything after my elbows will move... apart from that I'm static.